Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.